Revolutionary Workers' and Peasants' Party of Turkey

Revolutionary Workers' and Peasants' Party of Turkey (Template:Langx, TİİKP) was a Marxist–Leninist communist party in Turkey. TİİKP was founded in 1969 by the {{#invoke:Lang|lang}} ("Proletarian Revolutionary Enlightenment") group that had broken away from DEV-GENÇ ("Revolutionary Youth").<ref name="broadleft">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> The chairman of TİİKP was Doğu Perinçek. TİİKP was an illegal party.<ref name="sol">New Page 2 Template:Webarchive</ref>

The central publications of the party were {{#invoke:Lang|lang}} and {{#invoke:Lang|lang}} ("Dawn").<ref name="sol"/>

In 1972, İbrahim Kaypakkaya and others broke with TİİKP and formed {{#invoke:Lang|lang}} ("Communist Party of Turkey (Marxist-Leninist)").<ref name="TKPML">Qu’est-ce que le TKP(ML) ?</ref>

In 1978, TİİKP was succeeded by {{#invoke:Lang|lang}} ("Workers' and Peasants' Party of Turkey" or TİKP). TİKP later became a legal party and became {{#invoke:Lang|lang}} ("Socialist Party" or SP). In 1992, {{#invoke:Lang|lang}} ("Workers' Party" or İP) was formed as a continuation of TİKP and SP. In 2015 Workers' Party changed its name to Patriotic Party.

See also

• List of illegal political parties in Turkey